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66 reviews“[Owlish] is the literary equivalent of a house of mirrors, refracting & distorting shards of Hong Kong’s recent past. . . . A wildly inventive read.”— Louisa Lim, The New York Times Book Review
A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant & uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong
With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable & the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself?
In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage & a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a music box ballerina named Aliss who has tantalizingly sprung to life. Guided by his mysterious friend Owlish & inspired by an inexplicably familiar painting, Q embarks on an all-consuming love affair with Aliss, oblivious to the protests spreading across the university that have left his classrooms all but empty.
The mountainous city of Nevers is itself a mercurial character with concrete flesh, glimmering new construction, & “colonial flair.” Having fled there as a child refugee, Q thought he knew the faces of the city & its people, but Nevers is alive with secrets & shape-shifting geographies.
The winner of a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, Owlish is a fantastically eerie debut novel that is also a bold exploration of life under oppressive regimes.
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Dorothy Tse is a fiction writer who has received multiple literary awards in Hong Kong & Taiwan. Her collection Snow & Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman) was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. A co-founder of Hong Kong’s leading literary magazine, Fleurs des Lettres, she teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University.
